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The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

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  • #5552
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    New Home wrote: »
    Alrighty, this is probably very easy, so if it's guessed pretty quickly I have two related follow-up questions - hope that's ok (if it's not ok, please tell me).

    What's a cordwainer?

    Shoemaker


  • #5553
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,173 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Yep. :)

    So, my follow-up questions:

    Part II - What's the difference between a cordwainer and a cobbler?
    Part III - Who is/ who are their patron saint(s)?


  • #5554
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    New Home wrote: »
    Yep. :)

    So, my follow-up questions:

    Part II - What's the difference between a cordwainer and a cobbler?
    Part III - Who is/ who are their patron saint(s)?

    I had this one ready for when I got something right ...


  • #5555
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    Yep. :)

    So, my follow-up questions:

    Part II - What's the difference between a cordwainer and a cobbler?
    Part III - Who is/ who are their patron saint(s)?

    Ii - A cordwainer makes shoes. A cobbler mends them

    III - Crispin.


  • #5556
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,173 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Perfect.

    (It's Crispin and Crispinian, and a cobbler isn't (technically) allowed to use new leather, but you get two points and Corkgirl gets one too).


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  • #5557
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    While you are on footwear:

    A member of a Killarney footwear manufacturing family, he was an Olympic boxer, Irish republican, Church of Ireland minister and communist. He was killed in 1937 in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades. Name him.


  • #5558
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Name the three Furies? (Greek deities)


  • #5559
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Name the three Furies? (Greek deities)

    Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto


  • #5560
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto

    Correct!


  • #5561
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Correct!

    Well of course Zeus would get that :D


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  • #5562
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Orion wrote: »
    Well of course Zeus would get that :D

    Never liked them. Three angry harlots! :P

    Two part question:

    I want the name of Apollo's mother and his (twin) sister?


  • #5563
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Artemis is the sister. Can't for the like of me remember the mother's name.


  • #5564
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Orion wrote: »
    Artemis is the sister. Can't for the like of me remember the mother's name.

    Correct. Half marks :)


  • #5565
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    I want the name of Apollo's mother and his (twin) sister?

    Leto is the mother


  • #5566
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Leto is the mother

    Correct. Question each?


  • #5567
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    What were the three tunnels called in The Great Escape?


  • #5568
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    What is the biggest crater on Earth called and where is it located?


  • #5569
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    What is the biggest crater on Earth called and where is it located?

    Is it the Chicxulub crater - impact that killed the dinosaurs? In the Gulf of Mexico.
    [edit]Disclosure: I did look up the spelling but not the actual crater or location - I was close with my own spelling of Chicasalub though.


  • #5570
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Orion wrote: »
    Is it the Chicxulub crater - impact that killed the dinosaurs? In the Gulf of Mexico.
    [edit]Disclosure: I did look up the spelling but not the actual crater or location - I was close with my own spelling of Chicasalub though.

    That is number 3 or 4 as far as I know. The biggest is 300 km across.


  • #5571
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Orion wrote: »
    What were the three tunnels called in The Great Escape?
    Tom, Dick and...some other bloke. :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #5572
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Is the crater the one in Tanzania - though I don't think it is 300km across. Its a wild life park - Ngorongoro, brain just clicked into action :D


  • #5573
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    looksee wrote: »
    Is the crater the one in Tanzania - though I don't think it is 300km across. Its a wild life park - Ngorongoro, brain just clicked into action :D

    Afraid not! Geographically though, you're quite close.
    Its over 2 billion years old.


  • #5574
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Tom, Dick and...some other bloke. :)

    So close. Seeing as there's another question going I'll allow it. Other bloke is Harry.


  • #5575
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Who's first published novel was "The wasp factory"?

    “It’s a sick, sick world when the confidence and investment of an astute firm of publishers is justified by a work of unparalleled depravity” Irish Times review of said novel.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #5576
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Who's first published novel was "The wasp factory"?

    “It’s a sick, sick world when the confidence and investment of an astute firm of publishers is justified by a work of unparalleled depravity” Irish Times review of said novel.

    Iain Banks


  • #5577
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    wally79 wrote: »
    Iain Banks
    'twas indeed the late Iain Banks. I'm just about to take a road trip to Scotland and so I'm re-reading "Raw Spirit", his search for the best whisky of the country.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #5578
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Whose first published novel was "Consider Phlebas"?


  • #5579
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    wally79 wrote: »
    Whose first published novel was "Consider Phlebas"?
    Ha, I see what you did there. Iain Banks wrote his fiction novels as "Iain Banks" and his scifi novels as "Iain M Banks".

    In terms of music reproduction what is a Woofer?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #5580
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,173 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Assuming you're not talking about a dog (:pac:), is it some kind of loudspeaker?


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  • #5581
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    New Home wrote: »
    Assuming you're not talking about a dog (:pac:), is it some kind of loudspeaker?
    Yep. it reproduces the lower frequencies, the bass notes.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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